- The Statement
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director =Norman Jewison
producer = Norman JewisonRobert Lantos
writer =Ronald Harwood
starring =Michael Caine Tilda Swinton Jeremy Northam
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cinematography =Kevin Jewison
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distributor =Sony Pictures Classics
released = 2003
runtime = 120 minutes
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imdb_id = 0340376"The Statement" is a 2003
drama film directed byNorman Jewison and starringMichael Caine . It is based on a 1996 novel by Brian Moore, with ascreenplay written byRonald Harwood .The plot was inspired by the true story of
Paul Touvier , a Vichy French police official, who was indicted afterWorld War II for war crimes. In 1944, Touvier ordered the execution of seven Jews in retaliation for the Resistance's assassination of Government MinisterPhilippe Henriot . For decades after the war he escaped trial thanks to an intricate web of protection, which allegedly included senior members of theRoman Catholic priesthood . He was arrested in1989 inside aTraditionalist Catholic Priory inNice and was convicted in1994 . He died in prison in 1996.Plot summary
Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), a French Nazi collaborator, orders seven
Jew s executed during World War II. Later in his life, he is pursued by David Manenbaum (Matt Craven ), a hitman who is ordered to kill Brossard and leave astatement on his body proclaiming theassassination was veangence for the Jews ofDombay . Brossard recognizes Manenbaum at a local bar and begins to run from him. Brossard kills Manenbaum, then realizes he must now run from thelaw to save his life.Main cast
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Michael Caine ... as Pierre Brossard
*Tilda Swinton ... as Anne-Marie Levy
*Matt Craven ... as David Manenbaum
*Charlotte Rampling ... as NicoleExternal links
* [http://www.sonyclassics.com/thestatement Official website]
*imdb title|id=0340376|title=The Statement
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